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News, opinions, and stats in the changing world of book publishingFri, 31 Jul 2015 15:50:58 +0000en-UShourly1Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 7/27-7/31http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PublishingTrends/~3/tupyVKYmwP0/
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http://www.publishingtrends.com/2015/07/columbia-publishing-course-2015-super-grad/#commentsTue, 21 Jul 2015 15:20:26 +0000http://www.publishingtrends.com/?p=5907Continue Reading]]>It’s that time again! This year’s Columbia Publishing Course (formerly the Radcliffe Publishing Course) Graduates are an impressive bunch. As is our yearly tradition, we’ve culled the most remarkable and curious tidbits from the students’ biography to create one supernaturally talented candidate. With the exception of some connecting phrases, the words are the students’ own.

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This year’s Typical Columbia Publishing Course Grad, let’s call her Genevieve, was born an accidental Canadian on her sister’s seventh birthday. She was named after a British girl who believed herself to be a dog. She grew up in a small town in Hometown, USA, but spent most of her youth pretending to be in Middle Earth, slaying orcs in live action role-playing games. Her first break in publishing came at the age of ten when she won a caption contest in Nickelodeon magazine. Genevieve has been playing guitar in various rock and heavy metal bands since she was eleven years old, and has been collecting theatre posters and Playbills since the age of 12.

In college, she was known as the opera-singing rugby player. Genevieve spent her days attending Jamaica Kincaid’s and Mary Gaitskill’s fiction workshops. During semesters abroad, she studied Jonathan Swift’s manuscripts at the Bodleian Library to determine if marks were commas or blotches, and excavated plague skeletons in Ireland. She published a study on the linguistics of college dating and cofounded an organization modeled after TED Talks. Her April Fools’ Day article “Nutella To Be Discontinued By The End Of 2015, Hearts Break Worldwide” captivated readers and grossed over one million views. To prove her commitment to paper, she once refused to download known doorstopper The Luminaries and instead carried it with her, in brick form, in a backpack around India.

After graduation, she became stage manager for a film production company and manager of the drummer-themed app launched by Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Genevieve, a woman of many talents, has also been a miniature train conductor, a beekeeper, and has sold books at Garrison Keillor’s bookstore. She tackled Mount Kilimanjaro and a 500-mile hike across Spain and was once evacuated from Beirut when the government there collapsed. At the White House, she analyzed constituent mail addressed to the president.

An equal opportunity reader, Genevieve is just as likely to pick up a Janet Evanovich novel as the latest Kazuo Ishiguro. She has a voracious appetite for food, and is a Yelp Elite. She keeps a word/phrase notebook as well as a “lookbook” full of aesthetic inspiration. She is fluent in Spanish, confident in Chinese, and prone to buying purses based on whether or not she can fit a book in them. Currently, she is learning to bind books and hopes to have a homemade collection of her own writing one day.

Genevieve ended six months backpacking around the Americas to attend the Columbia Publishing Course. She hopes to pursue a career in book publishing so she can give back to the literary community that has been like a second family to her over the years. She wants to edit heartbreaking works of staggering genius, to borrow a phrase from Dave Eggers.

New York’s other major summer publishing course, New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute, celebrated its 37th year this summer. To learn more about NYU’s eligible grads or about the program, contact Executive Director Andrea Chambers at (212) 992-3226 or andrea.chambers at nyu dot edu.

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Ronald D. Boire was named as the CEO, Retail Business of Barnes & Noble, effective in September. He is succeeding Michael Huseby, who will become Executive Chairman of Barnes & Noble Education. Boire is currently President and CEO of Sears Canada.

Mike Harpley is now Editorial Director at Atlantic Books. He was Editorial Director at Oneworld Publications.

Kristen McLean joined Nielsen as Director of New Business Development in the Book/Entertainment division. She is the Founder and CEO of the publishing research and analytics company, Bookigee Inc.

Kelly Bowen joined Arcadia Publishing and the History Press as Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications. She was previously Publicity Director at Algonquin.

At Crown Publishing Group, Ryan DeShon is now Front End Web Developer, Abbe Wright is Editorial Lead, Read It Forward, and Ariel Norwood is Community and Social Media Manager, Tastebook. DeShon was previously Senior Designer and Web Developer at Catapult, Wright was Contributing Editor at Glamour, and Norwood was Content & Social Media Strategist at Viyet.

Amy Cleary joined Chronicle Books as Marketing & Publicity Manager, Food and Drink. She was Store Manager at Omnivore Books.

Carla Bejan-Negru joined Sourcebooks as Editor, Gift and Calendars. She was previously Operations Product Manager at Publications International, Ltd.

Thea Kuticka is now Sales Director at Microcosm Publisher. She was Business Development Director at Craigmore Creations.

Colleen Andrews joined Bloomsbury Children’s as Designer. She was Production Editor at Oxford University Press. Additionally at Bloomsbury, Ashley Poston joined as Marketing Designer.

At literary agencies, ICM announced a “succession plan” with The Helen Brann Agency, in which Helen Brann will continue to represent her clients along with ICM. . . Pete Knapp joined New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc. as Agent. . . Kate Garrick is now Agent at The Karpfinger Agency. She is bringing over her clients from DeFiore and Company, where she was most recently Agent. . . DongWon Song joined Howard Morhaim Literary Agency as Agent. He was most recently Chief Product Officer at Zola Books.

Jim Lance joined Cornell University Press as Senior Acquisitions Editor for Social Sciences. He was Editor and Publisher at Kumarian Press.

PROMOTIONS

Emily Meehan was named Director, Editor-in-Chief, and Associate Publisher of Disney Publishing Worldwide. Stephanie Lurie will become Editor-at-Large of Disney-Hyperion. Zan Schneider is now Director, Managing Editorial for Disney Publishing Worldwide.

Christina Quintero was promoted to Executive Art Director, Licensing and Intellectual Property at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

At William Morrow, Kaitlin Harri was promoted to Marketing Director. Miranda Indrigo was promoted to Manager, Author Engagement at Harlequin. At Katherine Tegen Books, Melissa Miller was promoted to Senior Editor.

Annsley Rosner was promoted to VP, Associate Publisher at Crown, Hogarth, Archetype, Tim Duggan Books, Broadway Books, and Three Rivers Press. Rachel Rokicki was promoted to Director of Publicity at Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway Books and Dyana Messina to Associate Director of Publicity at those same imprints. Natasha Martin was promoted to Publicist at Clarkson Potter and Lauren Cook to Senior Publicist at Harmony Books. Additionally at Random House, Dawn Ryan was promoted to Managing Editor at Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers and Penguin Young Readers promoted Lindsay Boggs to Senior Publicist.

DULY NOTED

Man Group CEO Emmanuel “Manny” Roman joined the Penguin Random House Board of Directors.

Tim McGuire, former Production Head at Norton and Simon & Schuster, was recently named Chairman of the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals. McGuire also serves on the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust. He can be reached at tmcguire@nyc.rr.com.

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Marian Brown is now Executive Publicist at Blue Rider Press and Plume. She was formerly Publicity Director at Bloomsbury. David Hawk joined Ten Speed Press as Senior Marketing and Publicity Manager. He was previously Marketing and Publicity Manager at Chronicle Books, specializing in food and drink titles.

Jeff James joined Thomas Nelson as VP, Marketing. He was CEO and Founder of Mythology LLC.

Sara Sargent joined HarperCollins Children’s as Executive Editor in a new role, publishing books created from or around digital and social media content. She was Editor at Simon & Schuster.

Kelly Bowen is now Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Arcadia Publishing and History Press. She was most recently Publicity Director at Algonquin Books.

Steven Sussman joined Skyhorse Publishing as Director of Sales. He was Director of Sales at Dover Publications.

In a reorganization of the US sales division, DK SVP, Sales Therese Burke and Director of Special Sales Vicki Korlishin’s positions have been eliminated. Burke can be reached at trez914@gmail.com and Korlishin at vkorlishin@gmail.com.

At Bloomsbury, Nick Parker is now Sales Director, Latin America, Caribbean, and Canada. He was Regional Sales Manager, Latin America and Caribbean at Oxford University Press. Sara Kitchen is now Senior Production Editor. She was previously Production Manager at Skyhorse. Additionally, Joe Kreuser joined as Marketing Manager for Philosophy, History, and Linguistics. He was Associate Marketing Manager at Taylor & Francis Group. Jessica Tackett is Conferences and Events Coordinator. She was Assistant Program Officer at Cultural Vistas. Donna Gauthier joined as Inventory Manager. She was Senior Inventory Manager at McGraw-Hill Education.

Andrew Knapp joined Wm. B. Eerdmans as Development Editor, Biblical Studies. He was Acquisitions Editor and Marketing Director at Eisenbrauns. Additionally, Alexander Bukovietski is now Production Editor. He was most recently Owner of the consulting firm In a Word.

Head of Bilheimer & Asssociates Roger Bilheimer, whose company handles the PR for Book Expo America, retired.

Yuka Igarashi joined publishing startup Catapult as Web Editor-in-Chief. She was Managing Editor at Granta.

Dennis Awsumb retired from his position as National Accounts Manager at Gibbs Smith.

Jackie Alston left her position as Social Media Manager at the Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Tara Gonzalez, Erin Murphy’s Assistant, took over the position.

Antonella Iannarino launched consulting firm AI Strategic. She was previously Agent at the David Black Agency as well as Website and Social Media Manager.

Antonella Pearce joined IPR License as Business Development Manager. Formerly, she was Public Relations Manager at the Publishers Licensing Society.

PROMOTIONS

In the merger of NAL and Berkley, Kara Walsh was promoted to SVP, Publisher, Claire Zion became Editor-in-Chief, Tom Colgan is now VP, Editorial Director, and Cindy Hwange became VP, Editorial Director. Additionally, Judy Murello is now VP, Art Director and Anthony Ramondo is VP, Senior Art Director. Meanwhile, Paul Buckley was promoted to SVP, Executive Creative Director at Penguin, overseeing all imprints except Berkley. An unspecified number of jobs were eliminated.

Also at Penguin Random House, Kim Shannon was promoted to VP, Director, Retail Sales. Christopher Brand is now VP, Creative Director at Crown.

Jimmy Iaconelli was promoted to Art Director at St. Martin’s. Khulan Enkhbold is now Senior Manager, Vendor Managed Inventory at Macmillan.

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http://www.publishingtrends.com/2015/06/international-bestsellers-june-2015/#commentsMon, 29 Jun 2015 14:55:20 +0000http://www.publishingtrends.com/?p=5877Continue Reading]]>Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Finland and India. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”. The lists are taken from major newspapers or national retailers, which are noted at the bottom of each list.

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